Thanks for the lead, Shaolin. I've found clear examples of <!---comment---> being used in the HTML source of two websites I just surfed. Wonder why none of my HTML programming books covers the use of comments? I feel a strong need to segment my index.html (home page) with comments so I can quickly locate a section when editing.

CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets
Styles define how to display HTML elements
Styles are normally stored in Style Sheets
Styles were added to HTML 4.0 to solve a problem
External Style Sheets can save you a lot of work
External Style Sheets are stored in CSS files
Multiple style definitions will cascade into one

Thanks hads ... I'm on that site now. I linked to it to go through their HTML tutorial on tables, then popped in here and saw your message

So Wombat,you think CSS is really great for creating webpage code? Do you think I should wait on it til I've come to understand how to code HTML by hand first? Or should I just rush into CSS and save myself time?

PCWriter, the two should go hand-in-hand, so learn both together. Doing simple things in CSS is actually really easy, for example you'll work out how to format text in less than a minute, I promise! OTOH, more complex stuff like positioning could take you an hour .

I have a news headline page, and a news story page, choosing the headline gets the correct story from my Access DB and gets displayed. BUT. I cannot get the text size and font and style to the one I want.